satisfied - Story 122270 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The hockey tryouts were over. “Thanks for coming out, Ben,” the coach said. Not good enough. Ben smiled politely, but inside, a lightness filled him. He would finally have time for the band, the music he adored. He pictured himself behind his drum set, the feel of the sticks in his hands, the rhythm pulsing through him. He quickened his pace, eager to get home and start practicing. A feeling of peace washed over him.

Emotion: satisfied

Cluster: Positive / Joy

PC1 (Valence): 3.20 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): -1.31

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion satisfied. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 satisfied stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the satisfied emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the satisfied vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`la`	0.518
`happy`	0.465
`enjoy`	0.439
`relaxed`	0.430
`enjoys`	0.429

Suppressed:

`S`	-0.515
`C`	-0.511
`😣`	-0.510
`worse`	-0.477
`😖`	-0.453